16.07 Deauville, Debutantes, €30,000, 2yo, c/g, 9 1/2f (AWT)
RIBBLE VIBE (IRE) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) is a half-brother to the four-times Group 1-winning miler Ribchester (Ire) who debuts on the Polytrack in the Godolphin blue for the Andre Fabre stable. In the immediate family are the classy Matterhorn (Ire) (Raven's Pass) and Bangkok (Ire) (Australia {GB}), who performed at their best either on dirt or the all-weather.

17.52 Deauville, Debutantes, €30,000, 2yo, f, 9 1/2f (AWT)
PELLEGRIN (IRE) (Kingman {GB}) is another notable newcomer for Andre Fabre on the card, being a daughter of Lady Bamford's brilliant G1 Oaks and Irish Oaks heroine Sariska (GB) (Pivotal {GB}). A full-sister to October's G3 Prix de Flore third Tygress (GB), she encounters the Wertheimers' Halfday (Fr) (Lope De Vega {Ire}), a granddaughter of the high-class Midday (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}).

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A 1/48th share in Grade 1-winning jumper Nirvana Du Berlais (Fr) (Martaline {GB}) (lot 10) has been added to the catalogue. The share gives the right to two coverings a year in 2023 and 2024, followed by one covering a year beginning in 2025. Standing at Haras de la Hetraie for €6,500 this season, his first foals are juveniles.

There is also a breeding right available in crack miler Ribchester (Ire) (lot 11). He is the sire of 12 stakes winners including Group 1-placed Flaming Rib (Ire). He is priced at €7,500 this year and the breeding right gives the buyer the right to one covering a year.

Rounding out the new additions is a half-share (1/100th) in G1 Prix de l'Abbaye hero Wooded (Ire) (lot 12). The son of Wootton Bassett (GB) has his first yearlings in 2023, and commands €12,000 at Haras de Bouquetot. The half-share grants the buyer the right of one covering a year, plus a bonus covering which may be used in 2023 or 2024.

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Standing under the Aga Khan Studs' banner at Haras de Bonneval for €60,000, the son of Dubawi (Ire) and the Arc heroine Zarkava (Ire) (Zamindar) already has 15 black-type winners to his credit, including the Group 1-placed Times Square (Fr), Purplepay (Fr), and La Parisienne (Fr). The share entitles the buyer to one nomination per year, plus an additional bonus nomination any even-numbered year (one nomination in 2023 and two nominations in 2024).

Other shares on offer include lot 4, a 1/60th share in The Grey Gatsby (Ire). Already the sire of three group winners, the G1 Irish Champion S. and G1 Prix du Jockey Club hero's share will entitle the buyer to one covering per year. He stands for €12,000 at Haras du Petit Tellier this year.

There are also breeding rights in several stallions, among them Cloth Of Stars (Ire) (lot 2), Territories (Ire) (lot 5), Ribchester (Ire) (lot 7) and Le Brivido (Fr) (lot 9).

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Other stallions with shares available include Group 1 sire Almanzor (Fr) (lot 3), high-quality jumps sire No Risk At All (Fr) (lot 4), group sires The Grey Gatsby (Ire) (lot 5), Goken (Fr) (lot 6), and Dariyan (Fr) (lot 11) and stakes-producing sire Al Wukair (Ire) (lot 9).

There are also breeding rights that will be offered from Darley stallions Ribchester (Ire) (lot 7), Territories (Ire) (lot 8), Harry Angel (Ire) (lot 10) and Cloth Of Stars (Ire) (lot 12).

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Among the choicest lots is a lifetime breeding right to Group 1 sire Showcasing (GB) (lot 34) who has sired 60 group and listed winners to date. There are also breeding rights in young sires Aclaim (Ire) (lot 35), whose daughter and 'TDN Rising Star' Cachet (Ire) landed the G1 QIPCO 1000 Guineas; and lot 33, a breeding right in crack miler Ribchester (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}). Runaway first-crop sire Havana Grey (GB) is represented by lot 5, Smoke Without Fire (GB) (Lethal Force {Ire}), who is carrying to that Whitsbury Manor resident; while lot 8 is Barbados Blue (Ire) (Getaway {Ger}) in foal to the recent Overbury Stud transplant Golden Horn (GB). Listed-winning hurdler Flaming Moon (Ire) (Born To Sea {Ire}) (lot 29) will also go under the hammer from Matthew Smith Racing.

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Second on the buyers' sheets was the 3-year-old placed filly Princess Azure (Ire) (Air Force Blue) (lot 21). Offered by Jessica Harrington's Commonstown Stables, the daughter of G1 Irish 1000 Guineas third Princess Sinead (Ire) (Jeremy) brought 17,000gns from Omega Racing.

A breeding right in Ribchester (Ire) (lot 35), who has three stakes winners to his credit, was next at 13,500gns to Dan Tunmore.

Overall, 10 lots sold for a gross of 104,200gns. The average was 10,240gns and the median was 12,500gns.

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He enjoyed a notable success at the two-day Breeders' Cup World Championships, with three winners in a single year, the first sire to reach that mark in the 37-year history of the Breeders' Cup. The GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf went to Modern Games (Ire), Saturday's GI Breeders' Cup Mile was won by new Kildangan Stud resident Space Blues (Ire) and Dubawi's trio was rounded out by the victory of Yibir (GB) in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf. In addition, Dubawi is the world's leading sire of group winners with 23 and stakes winners at 37.

A trio of new stallions will join the Darley Europe roster in 2022, with Palace Pier (GB) (Kingman {GB}) leading the way at £55,000 at Dalham Hall. One of the most brilliant milers seen in recent years with five Group 1 victories to his name, the son of Kingman won the G1 St. James's Palace S. at Royal Ascot in 2020 and later scored a victory in the G1 Prix Jacques le Marois. Kept in training in 2021, he added another trio of top-flight races-the G1 Lockinge S. at Sandown, Royal Ascot's G1 Queen Anne S. and a second edition of the Marois. The ultra-consistent bay retires with nine wins in 11 starts and $2,408,980 in earnings, rounded out by a neck second in the G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. on QIPCO British Champions Day.

Making his debut at Kildangan Stud is Space Blues, fresh off his Breeders' Cup Mile win. Priced at €17,500, the son of Miss Lucifer (Fr) (Noverre) captured the G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest in 2020 and also added the G1 Prix de la Foret prior to his Mile tally. He retires with a mark of 19-11-3-1 and $2,585,725 in earnings.

Undefeated as a juvenile including in the G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, Victor Ludorum (GB) (Shamardal) progressed to take the G1 French 2000 Guineas at three. Out of Antiquities (GB) (Kaldounevees {Fr}), his fee will be €15,000 at Haras du Logis. He also took the G3 Prix Messidor as a 4-year-old and brings a mark of 14-5-0-5 and $864,838 to stud.

Dubawi's son Night of Thunder (Ire) sired a pair of Group 1 winners in 2021 and he will command €75,000, tops of the Kildangan Stud roster. Thundering Nights (Ire) won the GI Pretty Polly S., while Kukeracha (NZ) was in action Down Under in the G1 Queensland Derby. They are two of 12 2021 black-type winners for their sire, who also sired four other group winners this year, among them Suesa (Ire) and GIII Athenia S. winner Pocket Square (GB).

Standing at £45,000 in 2022 is Too Darn Hot (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) at Dalham Hall. Flawless in a juvenile campaign that culminated in a victory in the G1 Dewhurst S., the bay backed up that form with another pair of Group 1 wins as a 3-year-old in the G1 Prix Jean Prat and G1 Sussex S. The son of Dar Re Mi (GB) (Singspiel {Ire}) was also Classic placed with a runner-up performance in the G1 QIPCO 2000 Guineas.

Esteemed sprinter Blue Point (Ire) (Shamardal) will stand for €40,000 at Kildangan. A dual winner of the G1 King's Stand S., the bay also won the G1 Diamond Jubilee and G1 Al Quoz Sprint. Both Too Darn Hot and Blue Point will have their first yearlings in 2022.

Three-time Group 1 winner Pinatubo (Ire) (Shamardal) is expecting is first foals in 2022, and will stand for £35,000 at Dalham Hall. Also welcoming their first progeny in 2022 are the Kildangan duo of Ghaiyyath (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) at €25,000, a four-time top-level hero, and Earthlight (Ire) (Shamardal) at €18,000. The latter landed a pair of juvenile Group 1s in 2019-the Prix Morny and the Middle Park S.

Two stallions that celebrated black-type success with their first runners this season were Profitable (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) and Ribchester (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}). The Kildangan residents will each stand for €12,500. The only stallion to receive a fee increase across the entire roster, Profitable sired 25 winners this year so far, and already has a group winner with G2 Queen Mary S. victress Quick Suzy (Ire). Ribchester has Listed Doncaster S. winner Flaming Rib (Ire) to date.

Dalham stalwarts and Group 1 sires New Approach (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and Iffraaj (GB) (Zafonic) are listed as private and £17,500, respectively. In Ireland, fellow Group 1 sire Teofilo (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) will command €30,000. See below for the full 2022 Darley Europe roster.

Sam Bullard, Director of Stallions, said, “We are thrilled to be introducing three outstanding multiple Group 1 winners to a very strong roster, deep on quality and achievement. Following last year's three champion additions in Ghaiyyath, Earthlight and Pinatubo together with Blue Point and Too Darn Hot in 2020, we are confident of giving breeders every chance of benefitting from the wonderfully positive sales season we have just enjoyed.”

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Flaming Rib bagged a trio of nursery handicaps–at Thirsk, York and Chester–in his three most recent outings and continued on an upward trajectory with a first black-type triumph in this straight dash. The 13-8 second choice was sharply into stride and claimed an immediate lead. Holding sway throughout, he was not for catching once stoked up passing the quarter-mile marker and ran on strongly under a late drive to comfortably hold Deodar by a length for a career high, becoming the first black-type winner for his freshman sire (by Iffraaj {GB}).

“He's been great and has won four on the bounce now,” said assistant trainer Colin Gorman. “He's been straightforward and has improved as the year has gone on. He's rated 108 now and it takes a fair bit to get a 2-year-old to that rating. He's very tough and, as [jockey] Pierre-Louis [Jamin] said after the Chester run, he manages to pick up twice in a race. In our book, the horses that do that are good horses. He puts his head down and battles it out as well. He will get seven furlongs, but I don't know if we need to [step up in trip] as he does it well as it is. I'd say that will be it for the year and he could be a Commonwealth Cup horse [next year].”

Flaming Rib is the first foal out of the unraced Suddenly (Ger) (Excelebration {Ire}), herself kin to G2 Grand Prix de Deauville victor and G1 Deutsches Derby runner-up Savoir Vivre (Ire) (Adlerflug {Ire}) and to the dual stakes scorer Sussudio (Fr) (Nayef). His second dam, the stakes-winning Soudanine (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}), is a full-sister to G2 Hansa-Preis and G2 Grosser Preis der Badischen Wirtschaft victor Simoun (Ger) as well as being kin to stakes-winning G3 Prix des Reservoirs runner-up Soignee (Ger) (Dashing Blade (GB). The latter's progenyis headed by MG1SW distaffer Stacelita (Fr) (Monsun {Ger}), herself the dam of G1 Yushun Himba-Japanese Oaks heroine Soul Stirring (Jpn) (Frankel {GB}) as well as being the second dam of this year's Listed Flying Scotsman S. victor and G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere runner-up Noble Truth (Fr) (Kingman {GB}). Soudaine's full-sister Suisun (Ger) produced the G3 Preis des Winterfavoriten winner Silvaner (Ger) (Lomitas {GB}) while her half-sister Suivi (Ger) (Darshaan {GB}) has the G1 Grosser Preis von Bayern heroine Sunny Queen (Ger) (Camelot {GB}) to her credit. Suddenly has also produced a yearling filly by Dawn Approach (Ire).

Saturday, Doncaster, Britain
VIRGIN BET DONCASTER S.-Listed, £34,500, Doncaster, 10-23, 2yo, 6f 2yT, 1:15.60, sf.
1–FLAMING RIB (IRE), 127, c, 2, by Ribchester (Ire)
1st Dam: Suddenly (Ger), by Excelebration (Ire)
2nd Dam: Soudaine (Ger), by Monsun (Ger)
3rd Dam: Suivez (Fr), by Fioravanti
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. (€40,000 RNA Wlg '19 GOFNOV; 35,000gns Ylg '20 TATOCT). O-Dolan, Dooley, Owen; B-Kildaragh Stud (IRE); T-Tom Dascombe; J-Pierre-Louis Jamin. £19,565. Lifetime Record: 9-5-1-2, $123,677.
2–Deodar (GB), 127, g, 2, Bated Breath (GB)–Tested (GB), by Selkirk. O-Juddmonte; B-Juddmonte Farms (East) Ltd (GB); T-Ralph Beckett. £7,418.
3–Mohi (GB), 127, c, 2, Acclamation (GB)–Minalisa (GB), by Oasis Dream (GB). (72,000gns RNA Wlg '19 TATFOA; 60,000gns Ylg '20 TATOCT). O-Al Mohamediya Racing; B-C J Mills (GB); T-Clive Cox. £3,712.
Margins: 1, NO, 1HF. Odds: 1.63, 1.50, 11.00.
Also Ran: Parisiac (Ire), Gold Medal (GB), Kit Gabriel (Ire), Mot And The Messer (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result. Video, sponsored by TVG.

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Shaikha is the second foal and scorer produced by a winning half-sister to four black-type performers headed by G3 Prix du Bois victrix Keratiya (Fr) (Iron Mask) and Listed Prix Hampton winner Kerasona (Fr) (Oasis Dream {GB}). The €240,000 Arqana September yearling is a half-sister to Listed Criterium de Lyon victor and G3 Prix La Force placegetter Darkness (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}). The March-foaled dark bay's second dam Kerasha (Fr) (Daylami {Ire}), herself a daughter of G3 Anglesey S. winner Keraka (Storm Bird), is a half-sister to Listed Brownstown S. victrix Kermiyana (Ire) (Green Desert) and G3 Prix de la Porte Maillot third Keramani (Fr) (Linamix {Fr}).

2nd-Deauville, €27,000, Mdn, 8-5, unraced 2yo, f, 6fT, 1:08.64, gd.
SHAIKHA (FR), f, 2, by Ribchester (Ire)
1st Dam: Kerila (Fr), by Makfi (GB)
2nd Dam: Kerasha (Fr), by Daylami (Ire)
3rd Dam: Keraka, by Storm Bird
1ST-TIME STARTER. Sales history: €240,000 Ylg '20 ARQSEP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, €13,500. O-Al Shaqab Racing; B-Ecurie Haras du Cadran & Ecurie Melanie (FR); T-Andre Fabre. Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by TVG.

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The familiar duo of Anthony Stroud and David Loder leaned nonchalantly on the parade ring rail to make their play for the Medaglia d'Oro colt who would become the top lot of the day, bidding against an unseen rival from inside the ring. Farther away still but connected via telephone, Singapore-based new player Kuldeep Singh gave his instructions to Arqana's Freddy Powell and is now the proud owner of a Kingman (GB) half-brother to a Classic winner. Other buyers unable to attend placed their bids online.

These diverse options which were hastened into existence by the blight of coronavirus have changed the traditional vibe of the bloodstock auction, with some of the buzz created by the intense exchange of bids from one side of the auditorium to the other perhaps now lost for good. But they have enabled trade to continue, largely unabated if sometimes delayed, to the enormous relief of those whose annual business is conducted predominantly within a few hectic weeks of spring.

In a close replay of last year, Arqana upped sticks and moved to the Goffs UK complex, and once again provided the most expensive breezer of the European season, in lot 90, the son of Darley America stallion Medaglia d'Oro, who brought the day's high price of £675,000.

The colt, a first foal of the five-time winner Shelbysmile (Smart Strike), herself a half-sister to Dubaian group winners Derbaas (Seeking The Gold) and Chiefdom (The Factor), will now be trained in France by Andre Fabre, having been prepared for sale by master pre-trainer Malcolm Bastard.

“Malcolm does such a fantastic job,” said Stroud. “He really brings his horses on so well. [The colt] had really good vet work so we decided that he was the one we'd have a go on.”

Bastard was a partner in the horse with Alex Kershaw, who bought him at Fasig-Tipton's October Sale for $175,000. He said,  “He is a fantastic horse, he breezed great and he has a superb temperament. There is a lot of improvement to come from him. The sale being put back a few weeks has only helped him because he's still immature. He's a beautiful horse who will only improve with time.”

Bastard added, “I don't got excited, I'm realistic, but it's turning out to be a good sale. But the horses have to go on and win for the owners.”

Strong Trade In Whichever Currency
As the sale was held in England, trade was conducted in sterling, but the figures have already been converted to euros on the Arqana website which shows, incredibly, that in the midst of a lengthy world health crisis Arqana has set new records for both aggregate (€15,219,820/£13,052,500) and median (€98,600/£85,000). The clearance rate settled at 88.6% for 109 horses sold from 123 offered at an average price of €139,631/£119,748.

Reflecting on the day's action, Arqana's executive director Freddy Powell said, “It shows that the catalogue was so strong, that it has been appreciated worldwide. We've had people bidding from all over.”

He continued, “All things considered we have to be satisfied. It's difficult to compare the figures to last year when we had far fewer horses, but the figures will be very similar to 2019 and 2018, when we had an aggregate of around €15 million. The median is close to €100,000 which is incredible from that number of horses. I think it shows the depth of the catalogue. The vendors have been amazing to adapt again–we had to change the date and change the venue–and when you have horses of that value for things to change all the time is not easy when you are preparing them for a breeze. That is why we had to make our decision early. But today has been very satisfying, especially the clearance rate, and we have had the highest median ever as well as record aggregate.”

Expensive Thrills For Marley And Cullinan
For much of the day the colts were well on top in the table but a pair of fillies sold two lots apart brought a dramatic late conclusion to the day's trade. Roger Marley had waxed lyrical on the merits of first-season sire Ribchester (Ire) when quizzed by TDN earlier this year, and his one breezer by the Darley stallion certainly did not make a fool of him. Sold as lot 147 through the Church Farm & Horse Park Stud draft Marley runs in association with his Irish partner John Cullinan, the daughter of Cheap Thrills (GB) (Bertolini) gave her vendors quite a few expensive thrills when knocked down at £590,000 following a ding-dong battle between Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock and Alex Elliot and Paul Shanahan bidding outside the ring. Tucked away in his office, Brown prevailed and was delighted to have succeeded on the horse he declared to be the best filly he has seen at the breeze-ups all season.

He said, “She did a phenomenal breeze and she has a great stride on her. She's a very attractive filly and it's a proper family–it's Chris Wright's good family.”

Brown added, “I'm a massive fan of Ribchester–there's a huge word about him. This was more than I thought I would have to give but time will tell if we're right or not. I can't say who her new owner is but they agreed with me.”

Indeed, the filly had been bought from Wright's Stratford Place Stud for just £45,000 at last year's Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale. With a terrific pinhooking result and six juveniles sold for an average of £215,833, it was a good day of trade for Cullinan and Marley. The latter said, “I couldn't have seen that coming in a month of Sundays but she has been very popular and is so straightforward. She has an amazing action and covers so much ground. I loved her from the minute she came over from Ireland.”

Lot 37, a Distorted Humor half-brother to Grade II winner Silentio (Silent Name {Jpn}), started the ball rolling for the Church Farm & Horse Park Stud team, bringing a price of £260,000 from Norwegian owner Stall Perlan. Peter and Ross Doyle were in Doncaster to act on their behalf.

“The owner wants to win the Swedish Derby and this colt will be trained in Oslo by Norway's champion trainer Wido Neuroth,” said Peter Doyle.

Thunder Across To Germany
Just two lots earlier, Richard Brown had been outbid by one of his partners in Blandford Bloodstock, Stuart Boman, who held his nerve all the way to £500,000 for a Yeomanstown Stud-consigned daughter of Night Of Thunder (Ire) for Jurgen Sartori. The German owner has already enjoyed success with a filly by the Darley stallion in last season's G2 German 1000 Guineas runner-up No Limit Credit (Ger). This filly will join that same stable of rising trainer Andreas Suborics.

“That was rather unexpected,” Boman said of the eventual price paid for lot 145. “I loved her stride and Yeomanstown Stud are not consignors who really focus on the times so when you factor that in she did a really good breeze and maintained that stride all the way through.”

The April-born filly is also out of a daughter of Bertolini, this one the unraced Catchline, who has bred two winners to date and is a half-sister to G1 Premio Vittorio di Capua winner Ancient World (Spinning World).

He added, “She has been bought for Mr. Sartori and will be trained in Germany by Andreas Suborics. This is the first horse we've bought together and I hope she is really lucky for them.”

Grove Stud Livens Up The Action
If the sale was a little steady away, it wasn't long before a pair of colts from Brendan Holland's Grove Stud livened up proceedings.

Lot 49, the Kingman (GB) half-sister to German Classic winner Miss Yoda (Ger) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), was the boldest pinhook in the book–as a foal–but the strong, bay colt duly played his part with an impressive breeze on Wednesday before fetching a bid of £500,000.

Bred by Gestut Etzean, the colt's life began in Germany and he was among the leading lights of the Tattersalls December Foal Sale of 2019 when bought by David Cox of Baroda Stud. It was thus a long wait for the pinhooker to return him to the ring but it was one which proved worthwhile. It is unclear at this stage who will train the colt but he was the first purchase for new owner Kuldeep Singh of Singapore, who was bidding on the phone to Freddy Powell.

The son of the G2 Diana Trial winner Monami (Ger) (Sholokhov {Ire}) brought up a quick-fire double of decent returns for Grove Stud. The previous lot (48), a colt by No Nay Never and the first foal of the unraced Mona Vale (Fr) (Zoffany {Ire}), had minutes earlier been sold for £300,000 to Alex Elliott and Jamie McCalmont.

“It just so happened that we had two exceptionally nice horses in early, both by really good young sires,” said Holland. “One has a stallion's pedigree and they both breezed exceptionally well. I was very hopeful coming here and I knew they could run but it still has to happen. It's a strong international sale this one and it seems to be going along so well. Best of luck to the horses' new owners.”

Confirming that the No Nay Never colt would be trained in England, Elliott said, “He's by an exceptional sire in No Nay Never, he did an exceptional breeze and he was an exceptional physical. I bought him with Jamie McCalmont for a new partnership and he was a horse that we both honed in on. I used to work for Jamie when I first came back to England from the States and it's nice to link up together and buy a horse. Partnerships are becoming more and more common; it limits people's risk and if people are prepared to do it, it gives you great advantage to buy a horse because you can pool your funds. These horses cost when you want to buy them as they are the obvious horses to everyone so you have to stretch to buy them. We're very excited by the new partnership. We looked at buying in America at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale but we didn't get anything.”

He added, “Arqana have done a fantastic job to get this whole thing going and they have produced some top horses. It's a really good catalogue and the physicals match up to the book, and the breezes matched up to the physicals and the book. Being so close to Royal Ascot is not ideal but I would just like to commend Arqana and Goffs for getting the whole thing going.”

Lone Dubawi (Ire) To Nass
Norman Williamson of Oak Tree Farm, whose top graduate from this sale in the past is the GI Preakness S. winner War Of Will (War Front), brought two colts to Arqana this time and was the leading consignor by average, thanks to the £480,000 sale of lot 130.

The colt was the only Dubawi (Ire) juvenile in the sale and is out of the treble listed winner All At Sea (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}). He was a £110,000 purchase from his breeder Lanwades Stud by Mags O'Toole at the Goffs Orby Sale.

Oliver St Lawrence, who bought the colt on behalf of Fawzi Nass after outlasting underbidder Morten Buskop, said, “He's a backward colt who I thought had done very well over the winter. I looked up my notes on him from the yearling sale. Norman has done very well with him. I don't know if he will see a racecourse this year. He has some maturing to do.”

Voute Also Strikes For Gold
A private sale was agreed between Jim McCartan of Gaybrook Lodge Stud and Ted Voute for the Medaglia d'Oro colt (lot 64), who eventually made the leading list at £325,000 after having been marked as withdrawn. The first foal of the GI Alcibiades S. placegetter Paige (Sky Mesa) hails from the family of Preakness and Belmont S. winner Point Given (Thunder Gulch), a half-brother to the colt's granddam Perfect Story (Tale of the Cat).

Voute said the colt had been bought for Prince Faisal's Nawarra Stud. He added, “Between us we go through the catalogue and we liked him, we liked Malcolm's [lot 90], we liked the Kingman [lot 49] and we've got him. He'll go to George Peckham to have a bit of R&R and he'll be a back-end 2-year-old.”

Rolling The Dice With Almanzor (Fr)
Alex Elliott had teamed up with Brad Spicer of Spicer Thoroughreds during last season's yearlings sales and the duo already has colts by Camelot (GB) and Sir Percy (GB) heading south for Australia. Joining them on the export flight will be lot 85, the Almanzor (Fr) half-brother to the French Classic-placed Dice Roll (Fr) (Showcasing {GB}), who started his career in Chantilly with Fabrice Chappet, then raced in Hong Kong under the name of Gold Win and, now known as Dice Roll once more, has had renewed success.

After bidding £245,000 on the first-crop son of Haras d'Etreham's dual-hemisphere shuttler, Elliott said, “Dice Roll has been doing really well down there [in Australia], and Almanzor hasn't had a runner there yet but he has been very popular at the sales down there. It's been great working with Brad and we now have three colts heading out there.”

Smart Pair For Crisford
Anthony Stroud and Simon Crisford signed for a pair of colts for an undisclosed owner, the first of which was lot 57, a Night Of Thunder colt who represented a decent pinhook for Johnny Collins of Brown Island Stables having leapt in price from a €57,000 yearling to a £215,000 breezer.

Stroud said, “Johnny Collins is a very good consignor and this horse did a lovely breeze. He fitted the profile of what we were looking for and he is for a client of Simon Crisford.”

Late in the session, Stroud was back for lot 134, a Lope De Vega half-brother to the hardy treble Group 2 winner Breton Rock (GB) (Bahamian Bounty {GB}). Consigned by Mocklershill, the son of Anna's Rock (Ire) (Rock Of Gibraltar {Ire}) was sold for £350,000.

Churchill Set For America
An early highlight was provided by Mocklershill's daughter of Churchill (Ire) (lot 4), who was eventually sold for £210,000 to agent Stephen Hillen after interest from Ted Durcan and Sheila Lavery among others. The first foal of the winning Invincible Spirit (Ire) mare Energie Green (Ire) was bred by Ecurie des Charmes and was a €75,000 purchase from Arqana's October Yearling Sale. She will now commence her racing career in America

“She has been bought for Dean Reeves and will be trained by Christophe Clement,” said Hillen. “I saw her in Ireland before the sale and she did a great breeze. She has a good long stride and she looks like she will get a mile or a mile and a quarter.”

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